Top 63 Better Than Late Quotes
#1. I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.
Evan Davis
#2. Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Kinky Friedman
#3. Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
Douglas Adams
#4. It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.
Bram Stoker
#6. I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.
Dennis Prager
#7. Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll
#8. A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it's too late." "I
James S.A. Corey
#9. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
Tamora Pierce
#12. Potius sero quam nunquam.
Better late than never.
Livy
#16. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.
Kimberly McCreight
#17. The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
Omar N. Bradley
#19. Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.
Craig Ferguson
#20. Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.
Melody Carlson
#21. There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death
who knows?
may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.
Sophocles
#22. Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#23. Better to start early than finish late.
J.R. Rim
#24. Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.
Jeff VanderMeer
#25. What the flower vendor interpreted as 'pretty nasty'
was only the intensity that comes to those who, better late than never, have found a
purpose in life and are pursuing it to make up for lost time.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#26. Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Matthew Henry
#28. My name is Phoebe Meadows." I covered my nakedness again with my arms. "I know it's a little late for this, since I'm currently lying butt naked in your arms, and you've already saved my life three times, but now is better than never. You can call me Phoebe if you like.
Amanda Carlson
#29. Rejecting the rules of late-stage tech-bubble venture-capital madness is a better, more resilient, and durable approach to business in a digital landscape. Who better to affirm this than one of the digital industry's most trusted news and analysis sources, PandoDaily.
Douglas Rushkoff
#30. ... but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
Rick Pitino
#32. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
Andre Maurois
#33. Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
Aaron Levie
#34. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
Marianne Williamson
#35. In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.
Alex Pareene
#36. it's better to be a bit late in this world than too early in the next.
L.P. Fergusson
#37. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A.E. Housman
#40. Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.
Denis Hayes
#41. About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#42. Better late than later
KSL
#43. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.
Auliq Ice
#44. You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way back up, and far less competition among buyers. It is almost always better to be too early than too late, but you must be prepared for price markdowns on what you buy.
Seth Klarman
#45. She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
Elias Canetti
#47. Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
Harold Geneen
#48. Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it.
Karen Robards
#49. Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
G. Edward Griffin
#50. Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
Livy
#51. With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
Sarah Dessen
#52. I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Salma Hayek
#53. As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.
Michael Leunig
#54. Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!
Deyth Banger
#55. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods,
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#56. It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.
Thomas Rowe Price Jr.
#57. I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never ... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
John Milius
#58. I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?
Liberty Ross
#59. Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. Too late to point out that he would be better off with someone smart and sweet and - okay - awkward than with Chelsea. Someone who could make him laugh. Someone like, oh, I dunno, me!
Marni Bates
#61. It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
Mary Renault
#62. Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.
Drake